No Budget Cup - That's Numberwang! Racing

Originally Posted by Berlin

Zolder is 2.6 miles and your 750 is going to drink more than my 600. So if your race is 10 laps you'd be looking at 5 litres minimum for a race at Zolder plus two or three litres spare for restarts and warm up laps.

Zolder looks like a great track BTW!


C

For the 3hr race I think a few refuelling stops will be required!!

Today:

Oil & filter change. Lockwired sump plug, filler plug and filter

Quick wash. Cleaned and lubed chain, adjusted cold tyre pressures.

Patched upper fairing scuff and fraying edge with resin and gave a blow over of white paint to hide.

Fitted some sound deadening to try and prevent resonance in the fairing as suggested by organisers. No idea how effective it'll be.

All garage stuff for race sorted.

Alll riding gear sorted, just soaking my tinted visor. Almost there, just that sodding can to arrive.

With a little detective work I've figured the can has reached the Rotterdam depot, so is less than 20 miles away. If it hasn't arrived by lunch time I'm going to ring them up and go and collect it myself!

Oh and I peeled off the black slanty "eyes" so that the race numbers can be stuck on Tuesday morning. It's lost a little character

[yorkie_chris]

Oi you can't say that, I got some infraction points for goin on about slant-eyes

Can has arrived, but without baffle and attaching spring as ordered So A16 Road and Race aren't not my favoured suppliers at the moment.

So off to get a DB killer & spring this evening.

Went to get a dB Killer, unfortunately the outlet of the can is larger than normal so the dB killer was way too loose, this was at 5:30pm

So I rushed to the nearest auto outlet, it was shut :angry: So I rushed back to the auto outlet in my town (minorly shunting a dutchman on the way, no damage), getting there minutes before closing to buy one of those exhaust repair kits.

I then proceeded with pliers, hammer, metal and softish stuff that came with it to make a folded up ring to pad out the dB killer, the trailer stepped in as a work bench again:






I drilled an extra hole for a rivet to accompany the grub screw below, bashed it all in, grub screwed and riveted:



And fitted the can, I can fart louder, which is good I suppose:



The French Supercar has taken on race van duties, swallowing all an endurance team needs, and leaving ebough space for me to sit in:



Loaded and hitched up, ready to roll, after filling the car and bike up with BP Ultimate:



Finally it's all ready to go, race starts in 14 hrs time in another country!

Tim, I can't believe how excited I am that You're going racing!

I've got more butterflies about your race that mine coming up this weekend! great read!

Oh, and whip that new DB killer out and file the tiny spot welds off that end piece thats across the flow and remove it. Having tried that DB Killer in my hornet, it's negligible increase in noise for much better flow and takes minutes to do.

...if you have time

C

It Tuesday here so Good luck for today/tomorrow

Write a report when you get back

I'll see how the bike goes through noise testing and through dynamic testing when out on track, we've 3hr 40 mins after practice/quali to fettle/sleep/eat etc. I don't want to upset the "custom" spacer that took some bashing into place.

Must go sleep, early start in the morning and two hr drive to track.

the end of the can looks sharp, wont they scrutinise that ?